@ Napoleon: I see - damn, all this history I don't know about. When were those Romans here?
@ Napoleon: I see - damn, all this history I don't know about. When were those Romans here?
@ Napoleon: Got it. In fact I know a couple of people who have done this (an American, a Burmese), but that was a few years ago. Connections made in advance, at least for the American.
Are there many Samoans among these mountains?
I think most local Chinese are familiar with the annual siren on this day and its significance, it is only foreigners who may be surprised.
@ Peter: Why would the Japanese government want to remind the Chinese government of the Mukden Incident by such a provocation? Highly unlikely.
@ Napoleon: don't you mean that you need a Myanmar visa? Is that a legal crossing point for 3rd-country nationals?
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Around Town: Yunnan University Museum of Anthropology
发布者Looks like there are indeed some interesting exhibits. However, I get the impression that the focus of the museum is primarily on non-Han peoples and/or on somewhat 'exotic' practices, whereas anthropology in fact can and does include the study of any and all human cultural practices. It is often the typical behaviour and culture of 'ordinary' people, whenever and whatever that might involve, that is the least understood, perhaps because all too many of us assume that we already understand it.
Burmese hardwoods logged to brink of extinction
发布者But of course the Chinese state has been extremely responsible, environmentally, for banning logging in China in 1998 - since when Chinese loggers have been raping northern Myanmar.
Burmese hardwoods logged to brink of extinction
发布者Isn't profit-driven development wonderful?
Kunming neighborhoods face water rationing
发布者@Kate, your question: I think anyone can do this.
Scores of Kunming officials investigated for corruption
发布者Crackdown on corruption, ok - but then there has been an unleashing of mindcops.